Exodus 26:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ מָסָךְ֙ לְפֶ֣תַח הָאֹ֔הֶל תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מָשְׁזָ֑ר מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה רֹקֵֽם׃

Transliteration

And wəʿāśîtā [you shall make] māsāk for-petaḥ the-ʾōhel [tent] təkēlet and ʾargāmān and tôlaʿat šānî and šēš mošzār, maʿăśēh rōqēm.

Grammar Details

*wəʿāśîtā*: verb, perfect consecutive, 2nd person masculine singular - and you shall make
*māsāk*: noun, masculine singular - screen/covering/hanging
*petaḥ*: noun, masculine singular construct - opening/entrance of
*ʾōhel*: noun, masculine singular - tent
*təkēlet*: noun, feminine singular - blue/violet material
*ʾargāmān*: noun, masculine singular - purple material
*tôlaʿat šānî*: noun construct phrase - worm of scarlet/crimson material
*šēš mošzār*: noun with passive participle - fine linen twisted
*maʿăśēh*: noun, masculine singular construct - work of
*rōqēm*: participle, masculine singular - embroiderer/needleworker

Word Meanings

*māsāk*: screen/covering/curtain/hanging
*təkēlet*: blue/violet/blue-purple material
*ʾargāmān*: purple/red-purple material
*tôlaʿat šānî*: scarlet/crimson/material dyed with kermes insect
*šēš mošzār*: fine linen twisted/fine woven linen
*maʿăśēh rōqēm*: work of embroidery/needlework/skilled work

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Referenced Verses

Exod 36:37 : 37 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer;
Exod 39:33 : 33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and it sockets;
Exod 40:28-29 : 28 And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. 29 And he set the altar of burnt-offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Num 3:25 : 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
Num 9:15 : 15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony: and at even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
2 Sam 7:6 : 6 for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
Ps 78:60 : 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
John 10:9 : 9 I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.
John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Exod 26:31 : 31 And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made:
Exod 35:11 : 11 the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Exod 36:35-37
3 verses
94%
35And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, made he it.
36And he made thereunto four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold: and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
37And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer;
Exod 26:30-33
4 verses
89%
30And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been showed thee in the mount.
31And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made:
32and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks [shall be] of gold, upon four sockets of silver.
33And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Exod 26:1-10
10 verses
87%
1Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shalt thou make them.
2The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
3Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and [the other] five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
4And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.
5Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to another.
6And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one [whole].
7And thou shalt make curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make them.
8The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
9And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
10And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is [outmost in] the second coupling.
Exod 38:18
86%
18And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
Exod 27:16
85%
16And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
Exod 26:37
84%
37And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Exod 36:8-9
2 verses
82%
8And all the wise-hearted men among them that wrought the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, [Bezalel] made them.
9The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure.
Num 3:26
82%
26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
Exod 40:28
81%
28And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
2 Chr 3:14
80%
14And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.
Exod 38:9
80%
9And he made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;
Exod 27:9
80%
9And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:
Exod 38:16
80%
16All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
Num 4:26
79%
26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatsoever shall be done with them: therein shall they serve.
Exod 40:8
79%
8And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
Exod 28:5-6
2 verses
79%
5And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
6And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman.
Exod 36:14-15
2 verses
78%
14And he made curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
15The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain: the eleven curtains had one measure.
Exod 39:2-3
2 verses
78%
2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
3And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.
Exod 39:29
77%
29and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Exod 35:17
77%
17the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
Exod 36:11
77%
11And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second coupling.
Exod 35:6
77%
6and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair],
Exod 26:12
77%
12And the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
Exod 39:24
77%
24And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and] twined [linen].
Exod 39:40
77%
40the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
Exod 39:22
76%
22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;
Exod 28:15
76%
15And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
Exod 26:14
76%
14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.
Exod 28:31
76%
31And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
Exod 25:4
76%
4and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair],
Exod 28:39
76%
39And thou shalt weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.
Exod 40:5
75%
5And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.